Credits: TSP’s Gratitude List
DESPITE OUR name, TSP is not just a chick thing, and we are grateful to some amazing adoptive brothers as well for their part in its birth.
The Sister Project is proud to be built on WordPressMU, the multi-user or network version of the empowering WordPress publishing platform underlying millions of blogs worldwide. The MU homepage says “Let your imagination multiply,” and so we did. And so we will continue doing. We are grateful to lead MU developer Donncha O Caoimh, and to Matt Mullenweg, architect, for their inspired work creating MU.
WordPress in all its versions is open-source software, and we are equally proud to be part of the larger open-source community (and to soon be donating back our first bits of custom code so that others may benefit as we have benefited from their offerings).
It’s hard to imagine The Sister Project would have happened without designer Kenneth B. Smith, whose openness to possibility seems boundless. Ken is a 20-year veteran of Time magazine, and a talented painter and photographer in addition to his graphic-design abilities. Perhaps Ken’s wife, a sister herself, has given Ken his instinct about staying calm in a sea of “sisters.”
Speaking of the sea: Brad Williams and Brian Messenlehner of WebDevStudios, former Marine Corps programmers now operating their joint venture on the beautiful Jersey Shore, have patiently taught me and Ken to navigate around MU without sinking the ship. The expression “Call in the Marines” has never been so meaningful as since Ken and I met Brad and Brian this summer. Their code, in the WordPress tradition, is poetry; their focus and follow-through the very best.
On top of the powerful WP MU platform, we have overlaid Chris Pearson’s impressive theme called Thesis, itself a formidable piece of software. Combined with Ken Smith’s vision, it has helped us take the look of TSP a bit beyond your average blog.
The original team of sisters blogging here includes Marion Roach Smith, Paige Smith Orloff and Anastasia Smith (none of them related, don’t ask).
The Sister Project is the second child of Margaret Roach Inc., which also launched A Way to Garden to national attention in 2008, its first year in fulltime monkey business.
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First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men. 
